Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To indulge in an extravagant expense or luxury.
- v. To be showy or ostentatious.
- v. To spend extravagantly or wastefully.
- n. An extravagant display.
- n. An expensive indulgence; a spree.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A blustering, noisy, or ostentatious demonstration, display, or effort.
- To make an ostentatious demonstration or display.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Slang, U.S. A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
- v. Slang, U.S. To make a great display in any way, especially in oratory.
WordNet 3.0
- v. indulge oneself
- v. be showy or ostentatious
- n. any act of immoderate indulgence
- n. an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.)
Etymologies
- Possibly from a blend of splash and surge. (Wiktionary)
- Perhaps blend of splash and surge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The connotation of the term splurge is unpleasant.”
“Sometimes the splurge is worth it and in this case, the splurge knocks out the cheaper specials by a long shot.”
“It's a common and simple principle, but it bears repeating for others: "Wait one week and see if the burning urge to splurge is there," wrote Al Viviano.”
Getting a grip on finances is hard, but at least we're trying
“This sort of splurge is a variant shopper's thrill.”
“You can’t beat 2 regular slices of plain cheese NY pizza (costing you under $5 at most places), and I’m still a huge fan of the the various 99 Cent Pizza places - but every once in a while a pizza splurge is in order.”
“My splurge was a paperback copy of The Long Goodbye, which turned out to be my favorite Raymond Chandler book.”
“The opening pages, which introduce us to what Mahler called his "suns and planets revolving", could politely be described as a splurge, while the unleashing of the brass for the Accende lumen and Hostem repellas sections brought all the clarity of a herd of stampeding buffalo.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“It's a clear sign of the continuing evolution of video games when hot titles splurge on big mainstream media ads.”
“Anyway, everyone break out your "splurge" wines and have a safe and happpy holiday!”
“That's something else I noticed - if I "splurge" and spend more on my veggies by going to a proper fruit and veg shop and not the supermarket, I enjoy the food more, I eat more and I throw less out as waste - so also, not actually more expensive.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘splurge’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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words to describe everything GOLD
emotions, reactions, senses, how do we feel when we wear gold, generational, memories,
Sensual, illuminated, history, intricate, classic, bright, luxe, sparkly, splashy, metallic, perfection, gilt and 30 more...
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Morthalion's Words
supercilious, kvetch, kvass, splurge, erroneous, pugnacious, macabre, gauche, conglomerate, abyss, paraphernalia, kleptomania and 285 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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verbs
deprecate, behold, bemoan, circumscribe, circumspect, pivot, discombobulate, rummage, chasten, chastise, undulate, snog and 122 more...
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wordsmithing part deux
because wordsmith is not a verb.
enmity, incarnate, chignon, nape, solitude, nocturne, decorum, warren, svelte, interstice, serene, charlotte and 488 more...
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ikepela's Words
quixotic, tempestuous, myriad, bubble, chevalier, archaic, soma, springs, strokes, snicker, lunacy, electricityscape and 110 more...
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Ugliest Words Ever
words that I refuse to say out loud.
tuna, uranus, bulbous, vaginal, rectum, cunnilingus, flatulance, pedagogy, blooper, booger, beefy, polyp and 116 more...
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lotic words of flow
fast flowing, rapid, confluent words
boustrophedon, boustrophedric, thixotrophic, ludic, hesychastic, blend, quaquaversal, phacoemulsification, mordant, glissando, vatic, tournure and 233 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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my dictionary
palatial, immaculate, sleep-deprived, Kleptocracy, customs brokerage, parochial, stagnation, egregious, rife, interdict, unassuming, extortion and 81 more...
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TT2 Lesson 21
visit, drop by, filthy, rude, slick spot, bright, injure, splurge, frugal, what a shame, emerald
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the hate list
words that give me the heebidie jeebidies
suffragette, get 'er done, fringe, causeway, twee, jumper, tgif, actually, syringe, seltzer, raisin, whited sepulchre and 72 more...
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waste of time and money
fritter, twiddle, squander, fidget, bric-a-brac, claptrap, clutter, lollygag, spendthrift, dawdle, boondoggle, thriftless and 22 more...
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